FEED ME!

In pursuit of making reddit easier to use, we’ve added the ability to get private RSS feeds to parts of the site that would normally require you to log in. The new set of feeds is available thru your preference page, and is available (currently) in both RSS and JSON. [If you are worried about the security of this, we’ve added a preference to disable it, and set it up so that all feeds will be invalidated once you change your password.]

The first example of its use is the front page: we want you to be able tocustomize your subscriptions to different reddits, but up until now there was no way to get a feed of your personalized front page without passing us your login cookie. This is sometimes handled gracefully by browsers, but seldom by other feed readers.

By the same method, we’re also generating RSS links for your saved, liked, disliked and hidden pages, as well as to get the contents of your inbox (even your unread tab).

And for the moderators in the audience: you’ll now find that both the spam and reported listings of your reddits have RSS available. In this case, though, you’ll find the feed on the page in question rather than on your preference page. This should make it much easier to keep dibs on what is making its way onto your reddit’s spam pages. We’ve also fixed a bug on those listings that was breaking hiding of links, so moderators will now have the capacity (at least individually) to clear out their spam listing.